Sarah is very dedicated to her career, colleagues and patients here at Children's Hospital Colorado. She is a CNIII RN on our Acute Care Resource Team and works bedside in almost every inpatient unit in this hospital! Sarah is a huge advocate for our behavioral health patient population. This growing patient population has increased the need and awareness of patient safety as well as safety for our staff throughout the organization. Sarah has helped identify the need for SAMA and is dedicated to teaching and implementing the practice. Sarah has been a lead SAMA instructor since we initiated the practice change at Children's Hospital Colorado from CPI to SAMA. She leads monthly provider courses, renewal courses and she also travels to Children's at Memorial to teach the staff this practice.

Sarah is also very active on the BART committee, which was developed to find a more effective and systematic approach to our BART team responses while, also, reviewing and revising the current policy and procedure. This committee work also performs case reviews to ensure and improve order entry, compliance and documentation throughout the organization. She is taking the lead to create a flow sheet similar to that of the RRT to ensure patient safety and a plan for care has been initiated. Sarah is a member of the hand hygiene committee and collects data by performing the required number of audits per quarter. Sarah has recently taken the role of liaison between behavioral health and float team. In this role, she will bring updates to the float team staff from the behavioral health areas.

She picks up numerous extra shifts to help when census is high and she also drives all the way from Fort Collins to South Campus to help staffing! Sarah is always a pleasure to work with and would go above and beyond for anyone at any time. I believe Sarah is well deserving of this award.